I am writing in response to Ruth Helmus’ inaccurate accounts of Ron Mason’s supposed dislike for women’s sports (“Mason is as biased as his predecessor,” SN 1/30). A quick review of the facts will show that her claims about Mason are false. I do concur with Helmus that the MSU athletics department has approached Title IX compliance in the wrong manner.
It was only a matter of time before snow would pounded East Lansing. Students and staff should be happy the 12 to 13 inches of snow that came Wednesday night didn’t come sooner - we all knew warm temperatures couldn’t stick around for long. Along with snow comes dangerous roads, covered cars, missing salt trucks and students hoping class will be canceled.
Saying that Matt Treadwell’s column on the Bible (”Biblical message found beyond wording” SN 1/30) was the worst column I have ever read would be the understatement of the year if my roommate hadn’t remarked that “Britney Spears looks good in spandex.” Why would he write a column about something that he obviously hasn’t thought about at all?
When people hear reports of a heavy snow, they usually prepare - maybe plan on taking a little extra time to get to class, bundling up, etc.
While I was certainly dismayed about the vandalizing of Sparty, I was also upset about the way in which it was reported on the front page of Wednesday’s edition of The State News (“Yellow and blue paint hits Sparty, but runs green,” SN 1/30). The story showed no neutrality.
Although Gov. John Engler is a proud MSU alumnus, he should stop meddling with the MSU Board of Trustees as if he were playing his personal game of political chess. It was announced Thursday the lame-duck governor will likely appoint Trustee Robert Weiss, a long-time Democrat, to fill a judgeship in Genesee County.
Matt Treadwell remarked that “the book known as the Bible... is not exempt from human error.” (“Biblical message found beyond wording,” SN 1/30) While I agree that sometimes mistakes are made in copying or translation, reading from a modern Torah scroll (the five books of Moses) in Hebrew is identical to reading from the Dead Sea Scrolls, even though there is a “publishing” gap of 2,000 years.
Recently The State News printed an article that placed MSU at the top of the alcohol arrest list (“‘U’ tops U.S.
The focus of President Bush’s first State of the Union address Tuesday night was not only appropriate, but necessary. Bush spoke of his vision for the war on terrorism beyond Afghanistan to a dozen countries that he said harbor terrorists and “an axis of evil” of three more that seek weapons of mass destruction.
State and the local governments must work together if there is going to be any type of growth within Michigan cities.
This is in response to the editorial “Smoke Free” (SN, 1/ 29). The State News’ commentary suggests that students who wish to live in a smoke-free environment should have a right to do so.
I hate columns about abortion - along with brochures, pamphlets, speeches and signs - for two reasons.
Reading Rishi Kundi’s article about a haircut experience made me realize something about myself ( “Haircut experience brings fears of balding,”, SN 1/24). I am proud to be bald.
The State News should seriously think about eliminating its lame, tasteless and ill-informed editorial cartoonist.
State addresses and annual reports should highlight the good and bad of any community. But all too often, the bad is buried underneath the good.
Even though I am not living in the dorms next year, I want to thank the Residence Halls Association for banning smoking in more residence halls for next fall (“RHA grants halls smoke-free status,” SN 1/28). I think RHA should consider making all dorms nonsmoking sometime in the near future.
I was elated to see that finally the university would be replacing athletics director Clarence Underwood (‘U’ wants Mason for A.D.,” SN 1/28). Since 1999, Spartan athletics have been supervised by this man who has been quoted as saying the only reason women play sports is for college scholarships.
We just wanted to take a second to express our disappointment in our Wolverine neighbors to the southeast. It’s seems our friends are having trouble accepting the fact that their poor excuse for a basketball team may lose its eighth straight meeting with the Spartans tonight at Breslin Center.
Numbers don’t mean much. Especially when they appear in a list without any type of context. The U.S.
While reading an Associated Press news story Monday, I learned a popular version of the Bible is being revised to include gender-neutral wording.